There is an ongoing Government interest in the potential of airships for cargo transport; Conducting vertical or near-vertical airlift of heavy, outsized freight with little or no ground infrastructure is an attractive cargo transport option. USTRANSCOM wanted to understand the principal issues that are holding back commercial development of airship transports. NASA Ames Research Center was commissioned by USTRANSCOM to study the airship industry’s ability to design, develop, and operate cargo airships. Principal study objectives were to identify: (1) Current and near term state of the cargo airship industry; (2) Roadblocks hindering cargo airship development; (3) Steps needed to remove impediments to cargo airship deployment.


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    Title :

    Airship Industry Study


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Aviation Forum 2016 ; 2016 ; Washington, DC, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-06-13


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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